Word: protested
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Want pure speed? Try Young America. Their boat cuts through the water with a mermaid painted on its hull, but puts up a protest flag every time Dennis Connor breathes wrong, it seems...
Thereal players may be back, but now the umps have been locked out. Pro baseball umpires are walking picket lines at stadiums where exhibition games are being played to protest. The umpires today balked at a contract proposal from the owners, but neither side would discuss the details. The umps have demanded a 53 percent raise over four years and other financial improvements. When their contracts expired at the end of 1994, the owners proposed cost-of-living raises that would increase salaries by just 2.7 percent this year. Umps expect the owners to start the regular season on April...
Jewett and the house masters will randomize the housing lottery unless students make their voices felt. When administrators first contemplated greater randomization seven years ago, more than 1200 first-years petitioned against it. So far this year, there has been some student protest--most recently in the form of an e-mail petition authored by Benjamin J. Torrance '95 who says he has submitted signatures of 190 students--but the activism of past years has not been there. Students who favor choice should make their voices heard, through petitions, e-mail and conversations with Dean Jewett and their house masters...
...allegations, President Clinton ordered his Intelligence Oversight Board to conduct a "government-wide review" of the case. The White House is also investigating whether the CIA in 1990 secretly increased aid to the Guatemalan military to make up for a Bush Administration cutoff of overt military assistance as a protest over the Devine murder. FBI agents were dispatched last week to the NSA's headquarters at Fort Meade, Maryland, to secure its communications records on Guatemala. The cia, Pentagon and State Department launched their own investigations...
...enforced cultural isolation of his homeland, Kancheli forged a plangent, tonal music of protest. Naive, almost childlike melodies nestle with dissonant passages of the utmost ferocity; isolated sounds wink dimly in the darkness, gradually coalescing into coherent shapes. Suddenly the music explodes like shrapnel, and the listener is left to pick up the pieces. "In Kancheli's music there is an intense spirituality combined with the craftsmanship of a composer who really knows what instruments sound like," says Davies. "It's a combination you don't often find...